Iconoclastic. Relationship anarchist. GitHubber. Pronouns: him/his. I say we take off and nuke the patriarchy from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I needed to make a small change to my hobby Rails app I was maintaining since 2009. Web development is easy, so how hard could it be?
Famous last words, as it turns out. (thread)
MLK didn’t die for our sins. He was murdered. He didn’t protest for a day off in January. He protested white supremacy. He didn’t create cute quotes. He illustrated a (still) unjust world through words. Today we remember a great man by continuing his legacy. Not by quoting him.
Make no mistake: prominent people in tech like Jack Dorsey know all of this. Jack is smart, but he and a lot of other folks invested a lot in bitcoin and the only way they get anything out of it is that they keep enlisting gullible people into the scam.
TLDR on bitcoin economics: It's a pyramid-shaped investment scheme backed by the collective delusion that value can created out of nothing by convincing greater fools to buy it after you do. (2/)
The Bitcoin cycle:
witness hype
experience FOMO
buy useless coins
succumb to sunk cost fallacy
generate more hype
get other people to buy coins
cash out to an actual currency like USD or Euro
It's a multi-level marketing scheme, but easier:
you don't have to look the people in the eyes when you push them into the fray that you've just cashed out on
your new wealth means that the environmental disaster you've contributed to affects you a tad later than everyone else.
We found significant errors of judgment and procedure in a recent employee separation. We have reversed the separation, and our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub. We apologize sincerely to the employee. github.blog/2021-01-17-updat…
Just found out that we can set margins in iTerm so that terminal contents does not touch pane borders. No more reading text glued to the very bottom of the screen. This changes everything